Kinterra Barn

1995.0635




Object ID#    1995.0635                

Object Name     Copy Print

Date     1874

Location        

Description    
Black and white photo of the barn at the Kinterra estate taken in the autumn of 1874. Various men are in evidence: one on horseback and two or three others standing near a covered buggy and an open wagon, both to be horse drawn. Barn is large and white. A stone wall is at the left end and a smaller building can be seen at the right end.

Notes    
Typed on a piece of paper that was stuck to the back: "Autumn 1874 / Barn at Kinterra, Church Rd., Wayne / Frank Dallett (1858-1935), is mounted. / He and his mother Mrs. Henry C. / Dallett, visiting the Watsons at / Kinterra, were making their first stay / in Radnor Twp. One of the other two / boys is Richard Watson, eldest son of / Richard Hubbard Watson, of Kinterra. / The other boy is one of the sons of / Dr. & Mrs. Walter Franklin Atlee of / "Ford Hook" (now Atlee Rd., Wayne). Mrs. / Dallett and Mrs. Atlee were French and / close friends of Mrs. Watson. The / negro hired man stands behind. The / barn appears with its Victorian additions, later removed. (original / photo in possession of F.J. Dallett, / Ithan, Pa., December, 1973 when this / copy given to Radnor Historical Society.)"